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Department of Pulmonology in SMF has been a valuable medical speciality offering services to the community for nearly two decades. At present, the department is manned by two consultants and offers outpatient and inpatient services daily. The department works in tandem with the founder’s mission of offering quality, community-centered health care at an affordable cost.

Milestones
    • The department offers daily outpatient facilities and has an excellent round-the-clock intensive care backup and in-house radiology and microbiology services, enabling consultants to admit and treat the most challenging respiratory cases.

Treatment

  • Obstructive airway diseases - asthma, COPD
  • Pleural effusions/pneumothorax/hemothorax and chest trauma
  • All lung infections - bacterial, fungal, TB etc
  • Interstitial Lung diseases
  • Lung cancer
  • Complete respiratory evaluation for pre-employment/pre-operative patients etc
  • Department offers daily outpatient facilities and has an excellent round-the-clock intensive care backup along with in-house radiology and microbiology services which enables the consultants to admit and treat most challenging respiratory cases.

Facilities

  • Video bronchoscope with diagnostic and therapeutic intervention facilities
  • Spirometry
  • Polysomnography (sleep lab)
  • Noninvasive ventilation facility outside the intensive care unit
  • Blood gas machine

Procedures and Interventions

  • Diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy
  • Thoracentesis
  • ICD/Pigtail insertion
  • Pleural biopsy/CT-guided lung biopsy
  • CT surgical procedures - decortication, resection etc